Greetings, Forgive me if this sounds too primitive, but what are the real benefits of getting a target board for a certain chip with...

Greetings, Forgive me if this sounds too primitive, but what are the real benefits of getting a target board for a certain chip with the abundance of JTAG and other in circuit programming? What I mean is that most likely, your design is different from what the evaluation board has to offer and you have to program your device, be it an MCU or any other. Are evaluation boards meant to ...

Am trying to get a environment going to allow development on > 1 networked hosts, perhaps unix, win2k, or even linux, with networked target...

Am trying to get a environment going to allow development on > 1 networked hosts, perhaps unix, win2k, or even linux, with networked target hardware. Am late to the arm party, but am considering several arm variants, as well as coldfire. The arm targets all seem to be jtag, with wiggler interface to parallel port and to get this networked, plan to use a cheap s/hand hp printserver (Paral

We are working on a small MSP430F149 project and are having a heap of grief getting the basic hardware going. We continually get inconsistent...

We are working on a small MSP430F149 project and are having a heap of grief getting the basic hardware going. We continually get inconsistent results when attempting to connect and download to the msp430. Initially the JTAG will not connect but this problem appeared to rectify itself. It then had trouble writing to memory at address 0x1100 - the start of the program flash. Reseating the ms...

Hi, My application goes into a Deadlock condition OR some_Unknown_Problem. If i use JTAG and do 'Connect' , can i get the exact place of...

Hi, My application goes into a Deadlock condition OR some_Unknown_Problem. If i use JTAG and do 'Connect' , can i get the exact place of problem OR atleast near to the place of problem ? Any other ideas ?? I Use CCS(Code Composer Studio) & OMAP. Thx in advans, Karthik Balaguru

Hi, I'm going to be doing some PIC32 development and I'd love to do it under linux if I'm able. We have a PIC32MX and the Microchip ICD2...

Hi, I'm going to be doing some PIC32 development and I'd love to do it under linux if I'm able. We have a PIC32MX and the Microchip ICD2 "hockey puck" JTAG. I don't care so much about an IDE - I'd rather build my stuff using emacs/gnumake. But what I need are: 1. A cross-compiler/assembler/linker that runs under linux 2. The debugger. Keep in mind we also have the MPLAB software ...

Hi - I'm fairly certain I'm going to use an ARM in a project I'm working on. I have a good deal of experience with Atmel AVRs, but I have never...

Hi - I'm fairly certain I'm going to use an ARM in a project I'm working on. I have a good deal of experience with Atmel AVRs, but I have never used an ARM before. So I was wondering if you all could answer a couple basic questions regarding ARMs: 1. programming: My understanding of programming an ARM is that you do it with a JTAG cable. I was looking at this one, specifically: http://olim...

I have a client who needs to write program hex files to flash in installed AT91SAM2S256 chips. The board is fitted with the standard ARM 20-pin...

I have a client who needs to write program hex files to flash in installed AT91SAM2S256 chips. The board is fitted with the standard ARM 20-pin JTAG connector. I'm getting my head around OpenOCD and gdb, but they seem too complicated for a civilian. Would anyone like to share experiences with simpler software, possibly Windows-based? Recommendations for interface hardware, software p...

Hi all, I'm now porting the redboot from a EVM board to my target board. However, I've changed the flash and it seems doesn't work with my old...

Hi all, I'm now porting the redboot from a EVM board to my target board. However, I've changed the flash and it seems doesn't work with my old redboot configuration. I can only see the target board send some rubbish out from the serial port. I don't know what to do next. I'm actually loading the redboot thru a JTAG. In normal case, how does people solve this problem since it is tedious to ...

Hi, we use the Quadrafox Compiler/Debugger now for many years as our standard IDE. We use C as Programming language in our firm. But the...

Hi, we use the Quadrafox Compiler/Debugger now for many years as our standard IDE. We use C as Programming language in our firm. But the integrated JTAG Debugger is very bad to use and the generated code is not very good. (optimization). So what do you use for compiling Projects for the MSP Family ? I heard the IAR Compiler is not realy the first choice, and also very expensive. Fra...

Does anyone have information on the Make Controller Kit board? Is $150 a good price? According to www.uCHobby.com it has the new Atmel...

Does anyone have information on the Make Controller Kit board? Is $150 a good price? According to www.uCHobby.com it has the new Atmel AT91SAM7X256 with everything except the kitchen sink; 256K Flash, 64K SRAM, JTAG, Ethernet, CAN, USB, 3 UART, 10 A/D, 4 PWM, 2 SPI, Watch Dog Timer, POR and Brownout etc...

Anyone know of a single wire interface suitable for debugging (+ ground of course) ? Is it possible to "compress" JTAG to a single wire ? Are...

Anyone know of a single wire interface suitable for debugging (+ ground of course) ? Is it possible to "compress" JTAG to a single wire ? Are there other standards that could be used ? Any vendors (Semi vendors) offer this already ? Thanks in advance, HGH

Hello, I've a small "problem". I first describe the situation::: I have a AT91 microcontroller connected with the host by a amontec JTAG... I...

Hello, I've a small "problem". I first describe the situation::: I have a AT91 microcontroller connected with the host by a amontec JTAG... I start OpenOCD and everithing run OK. In the gdb script (to connect to openocd) i set a hardware breakpoint (with hbreak main), and a continue command... ------------------------------------------------------------- > THIS IS THE OPENOCD SCRIPT: #da

Does anyone have recommendations for Cortex M3/M4 microcontrollers with a bootloader in ROM? We use a number of Freescale Kinetis devices,...

Does anyone have recommendations for Cortex M3/M4 microcontrollers with a bootloader in ROM? We use a number of Freescale Kinetis devices, but there is no ROM bootloader - programming is through either JTAG or the EZ-Port (basically treating the chip like an SPI flash device). We have an application where a UART-based bootloader would be very useful, and having it in ROM would save a lot of...

Hi guys, I have a problem and allthought I desperately tried to solve it there is no resolution in sight. So I really hope you can help me. My...

Hi guys, I have a problem and allthought I desperately tried to solve it there is no resolution in sight. So I really hope you can help me. My setup: - embedded artists MCB2478 - Keil ULINK 2 JTAG adaptor - workstation with uVision 5 I have to program my prog onto external memory to preserve the flash ROM of the microcontroller. I found a Q&A about this topic and an example for a control...

I am looking into the MSP430 series of microcontrollers for a project. I have surveyed the tools and I found the following companies make C...

I am looking into the MSP430 series of microcontrollers for a project. I have surveyed the tools and I found the following companies make C compilers for it: 1. Quadravox 2. IAR 3. Rowley & Associates 4. HiTech 5. ICC430 6. MSPGCC (free) Hardware/JTAG debugging toolwise I see: 1. Softbaugh (USBP(E), USBPPRO) 2. Elprotronic (http://www.elprotronic.com/Products.asp) What did y...

Hello all. :-) I''m new to the ARM world, but after much struggling, I''ve managed to figure out how to compile and load code into RAM using an...

Hello all. :-) I''m new to the ARM world, but after much struggling, I''ve managed to figure out how to compile and load code into RAM using an openocd JTAG programmer from Olimex. Using Eclipse or Insight as the debugger makes no difference in the behavior. The problem is that I seem to be getting random crashes when running the code (simple LED blinker with for/next delay loops). Some...

Hello All, I am to develop some medium size applications using the AT91 devices and have been presented with the IAR Embedded Workbench for...

Hello All, I am to develop some medium size applications using the AT91 devices and have been presented with the IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm ( initially version 3.4 ) and a BDI JTag debug interface. The segmentation was a real mess especialy where the embedded libraries are concerned wich makes the relocation of code a painful process. Also during some basic tool tests the and the err...

Hi guys - we are using the Win32 MSPGCC package from sourceforge and are having a little trouble programing the microcontroller...

Hi guys - we are using the Win32 MSPGCC package from sourceforge and are having a little trouble programing the microcontroller (MSP430F149). Via our JTAG programmer board we can connect to the micro, read the device identity, Vcc voltage and dump the register values etc ok. However when we try to download the binary program file we have problems. The messages we receive are: Debug win...

recently I saw the STR9 comstick from Hitex for an amazingly low price. Maybe I am going to use that CPU for a new project what requires to...

recently I saw the STR9 comstick from Hitex for an amazingly low price. Maybe I am going to use that CPU for a new project what requires to show analog input data over webserver by javascript. Before waisting the 39 Euro there are some open questions: 1) the product photo shows 3 QFP chips. Two of them seems CPU and PHY. What ist the 3rd (ext. memory?) 2) I cannot see the jtag connec...

I want to set a colleague's son up to work on some simple ARM projects on an LPC2106, using material I have on hand. I have plenty of EVBs etc...

I want to set a colleague's son up to work on some simple ARM projects on an LPC2106, using material I have on hand. I have plenty of EVBs etc lying about, but the only JTAG adapters I have are a few Keil ULINK2s and a Rowley CrossConnect. Is there any free debugger that works with either of these adapters? Thanks.